Word: adolph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MOST PUBLICIZED CORPORATE dispute in America sparked campus debate last week, as the Coors controversy came to Cambridge. Outside Harvard University's Science Center on February 24, 200 student protesters picketed William Coors, Chairman of the Adolph Coors brewing company, chanting "Contras drink Coors," and "Racist, sexist, anti-gay. Coors beer, no way." Inside, 400 students listened attentively as the affable executive defended his family's brewery's policies...
...great deal of the Coors family money is donated through the Adolph Coors Foundation, which gave out $3,752,000 in 1985. Most of the foundation's money goes to education and community service programs, and only 20 per cent funds 'public affairs' organizations, such as Accuracy in Media and the right-wing National Forum Foundation. In 1985, $100,000 went to the conservative Heritage Foundation--a think-tank that funds research calling for a substantial decrease in federal student financial aid and an increase in funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars). Joseph Coors is a founder...
...degree to which the Coors are ultraconservative is a subject for debate. Joseph Coors' charitable contributions as well as those of the Adolph Coors Foundation have long supported right-wing organizations such as the Heritage Foundation. But for all the conservative think tanks and policy groups that the Coors family funds, they provide even more money to schools, hospitals and community service centers...
...THUNDEROUS world applause Neville Chamberlain walked away from a summit conference in Munich with Adolph Hitler, having reached a non-aggression pact with the threatening Nazi power. He was hailed in Britain and across Europe as a diplomat of unsurpassed greatness, one who could bargain with and control even the world's greatest menace without risking the atrocities of the first world...
...unlikely that Adolph Hitler would havegiven up his plans to proceed," he said...